Shallow Reality in America — American Thinker

Where it reads America, read Australia or in fact the entire Western hemisphere….

“..If there is a single problem with our lives today, it is the breathtaking shallowness of modern life. We seem infatuated with grade-school gossip and a breathless yearning for “stuff,” as if the latest gadgetry or a fatter bank account could make anything real in our lives better. We seem to believe in nothing but this gossip and these gadgets. This infantile fixation stretches across political party and ideology.

This is a reflection of godlessness, shattered families, and the wicked drumbeat in education and media of indoctrination instead of learning or amusement. It is astounding how little most people know of history and religion. It is frightening how illogical and anti-historical the vast majority of us have become.

The flurry of “news” these days is nothing more than rhetorical spitballs and name-calling. Most news outlets anymore are almost unwatchable, with hosts who luxuriate in banality. Most of these nebbishes say the same things all the time and demonstrate little more than nice legs, pretty faces, and ample breasts.

Our system of statist institutional education parrots what fits into the cesspool of social conformity, producing graduates who know less than before they entered college. Our public school students are programmed to feed corrupt and stupid academia and to crank out like sausages lobotomized and neutered creatures, as incapable of challenging the vast network of illogic and lies that governs society as the tormented subjects of Oceania in Orwell’s 1984.

Everyone in politics is in politics for himself, not for higher values or noble aims.

Can anything be done? The decay of Europe and its descent into moral chaos and cognitive duplicity suggest that our time is short and our condition desperate. It will take intellectual courage, which seems lacking everywhere. That means telling the truth instead of saying what one is expected to say..” Shallow Reality in America